The Shortcode Chart.js plugin we've created allows you to create simple animated charts using Chart.js in your Grav website. (Reload the page if you missed the animations.)

It installs in all the usual ways, and should be shortly available from the GPM so that you can intall it via the Admin plugin or the cli using gpm. In the meantime you can download it from our GitHub account, in t...

Each month1 I like to look back and see where I've been spending my device time2. These are the apps that have got the most screen time so far this month. ( N.B. Links to iTunes, AppStore and iBooks Store are affiliate links )

The Bigfoot.js library is a jQuery plugin that takes standard form HTML encoded Footnotes and turns them into a much more useful format1 for reading. We wrote a simple plugin for Grav to make using it easier.

Making Bigfoot.js work in Grav

There's lots of ways to add this to Grav but I decided to make life easier (for us and you), so as we'll be using this in a few new app sites over the next little while I've created a Grav plugin and put it up on Gi...

SSH, Vagrant and Private Key -> Host mapping

I've been using a lot of different Linux systems (Linuxes?) lately so it's been a case of Vagrant to the rescue… however, there's a problem. Great as Vagrant is, and it is, the problem is that I'm working with multiple Vagrant instances that I need to ssh into… directly (because Ansible) and this causes issues with ssh and my known_hosts.

Grav is one of those new open source, flat file CMS's that you see around the place these days, it's driven by PHP, it's articles/pages are written in Markdown, uses YAML, has Twig support… and it's recently passed it's official 1.0 release.

One of the really nice things is, that out-of-the-box it's runs on your Mac without any extras or changes to the system (apart from the standard Apache setup anyway — and you can use VirtualHost for that if you're not into that sort of stuff). N...